George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Luke 13:21
The flour represents us Christians, who receive the Lord Jesus into the inner parts of our soul, till we are all inflamed with the fire of his heavenly wisdom. (St. Ambrose)
The flour represents us Christians, who receive the Lord Jesus into the inner parts of our soul, till we are all inflamed with the fire of his heavenly wisdom. (St. Ambrose)
Verse Luke 13:21. _LIKE LEAVEN_] See this explained, Matthew 13:33....
See these parables explained in the notes at Matthew 13:31....
CHAPTER 13 __ 1. The Necessity of Repentance. (Luke 13:1 .) 2. The Barren Fig Tree. (Luke 13:6) 3. The Healing of a Daughter of Abraham. (Luke 13:10) 4. Parable of the Mustard Seed. ...
A WOMAN HEALED ON THE SABBATH. (Lk. only; _cf. Luke 6:1_). Loisy is too fanciful in connecting this section with what precedes by suggesting that as the barren tree stands for unrepentant Israel so th...
Again Jesus said, "To what will I liken the kingdom of God? It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, until the whole was leavened." This is an illustration which Jesus...
SUFFERING AND SIN (Luke 13:1-5)...
LEAVEN. See note on Matthew 13:33. IN. Greek. _eis._ App-104....
_It is like leaven_ Except in this parable, _leaven_in Scripture (being connected with corruption and fermentation) is used as the type of sin. See Luke 12:1; Exodus 12:1; Exo 12:15-20; 1 Corinthians...
Luke 9:51 to Luke 18:31_. Rejected by the Samaritans. A lesson of Tolerance._ This section forms a great episode in St Luke, which may be called the departure for the final conflict, and is identical...
ὉΜΟΊΑ ἘΣΤῚΝ ΖΎΜΗΙ. Except in this parable, _leaven_ in Scripture (being connected with corruption and fermentation) is used as the type of sin. See Luke 12:1; Exodus 12:1; Exodus 12:15-20;...
CHAPS. Luke 9:51 to Luke 18:31 This section forms a great episode in St Luke, which may be called the departure for the final conflict, and is identical with the journey (probably to the Feast of the...
THE MUSTARD SEED AND THE LEAVEN...
VER 18. THEN SAID HE, TO WHAT IS THE KINGDOM OF GOD LIKE? AND WHEREUNTO SHALL I RESEMBLE IT? 19. IT IS LIKE A GRAIN OF MUSTARD SEED, WHICH A MAN TOOK, AND CAST INTO HIS GARDEN; AND IT GREW, AND WAXED...
_PARABLES OF MUSTARD SEED AND LEAVEN -- LUKE 13:18-21:_ Jesus described the Kingdom of heaven as when a person planted a mustard seed in a garden. The seed grows as big as a tree and birds nest in its...
ΖΎΜΗ (G2219) _dat. sing._ дрожжи, ΛΑΒΟΫ́ΣΑ _aor. act. part. (сопутств.)_, _см._ Luke 13:19. ΈΝΈΚΡΥΨΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΈΓΚΡΎΠΤΩ (G1470) прятать, ΆΛΕΎΡΟΥ _gen. sing. от_ ΆΛΕΥΡΟΝ (G224) мука. Опис...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 3 Repentance in Destiny (Luke 13:18-21) 18 He said therefore, What is the kingdom of God like? And to what shall I compare it? 19It is like a grain of mustard seed which a...
Then said he, Unto what is the kingdom of God like? and whereunto shall I resemble it? For the exposition of this portion, see the notes at Matthew 13:31, with Remarks....
57-59 Compare Mat_5:25-26; Pro_25:8. 1 There is a strong natural tendency to connect calamity with sin. Hardly any great disaster occurs but someone seeks to justify it on the ground that the victims...
THE GALILEANS KILLED BY PILATE. THE UNFRUITFUL FIG TREE. LAMENT OVER JERUSALEM 1-9. Three exhortations to repentance, of which the former two are based on recent events, and the third is a parable. A...
THE MUSTARD SEED AND THE LEAVEN (Matthew 13:31; Mark 4:30). See on Mt....
LUKE’S GOOD NEWS LUKE _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 13 PEOPLE NEED TO TURN TO GOD 13:1-9 Two incidents and a *parable all teach that people need to turn to God. They must do this so that they avoid pun...
(18-21) THEN SAID HE, UNTO WHAT IS THE KINGDOM OF GOD LIKE? — See Notes on Matthew 13:31. The first impression with most readers, in the absence of any apparent trace of sequence, is that we have an i...
_The parables of the mustard seed and the leaven_ (Matthew 13:31-33; Mark 4:30-32). Lk. may have introduced these parables here either because the joy of the people was in his view the occasion of the...
THE PENALTY OF NEGLECTED OPPORTUNITY Luke 13:18-30 Notice here the inward movement and the outward effect of the gospel whether in the heart or in the world of men. The garden and the kitchen, the li...
Someone brought to our Lord an account of a happening which seemed to suggest that those who suffered catastrophe are proved to be "sinners above all." He directly contradicted that view, and in that...
THE MUSTARD-SEED AND THE LEAVEN Luke 13:18-21 “ _Then He said_, _To what is the kingdom of God like_, _and to what shall I liken it_? _It is like the seed of mustard_, _which a man_, _having taken_, _...
11. _The Progress of the Kingdom: Luke 13:10-21_. During this journey, as throughout His whole ministry, Jesus did not fail to frequent the synagogues on the Sabbath days. The present narrative introd...
Then said he, Unto what is the kingdom of God like? and whereunto shall I resemble it? It is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and cast into his garden; and it grew, and waxed a great tr...
The ninth chapter opens with the mission not the setting apart, but the circuit of the twelve sent out by the Lord, who therein was working after a fresh sort. He communicates power in grace to men, c...
_THE GOSPEL IN THE HEART_ ‘Whereunto shall I liken the kingdom of God? It is like leaven.’ Luke 13:20 The parable of the leaven is intended to show the progress of the Gospel in the heart of a beli...
Now, at this moment they reminded Him of a terrible judgment that had fallen upon some among them. He declares to them that neither this case, nor another which He recalls to their minds, is exception...
IT IS LIKE LEAVEN,.... Which is small in quantity, but is of a swelling, spreading quality; and fitly expresses the small beginnings of the Gospel ministry, and its increase, also the state and case o...
It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened. Ver. 21. See Matthew 13:33 ....
Luke 13:21. See note on Matthew 13:38. Luke 14:22-23...
_Then said he, Unto what is the kingdom of God like?_ After the Lord had thus silenced the ruler of the synagogue, and while he observed the rejoicings of the people, he reflected with pleasure on the...
Parables of the mustard-seed and leaven. Matthew 18:31-33....
PARABLES AND TEACHINGS. The parables of the mustard-seed and the leaven:...
IT IS LIKE LEAVEN, WHICH A WOMAN TOOK AND HID IN THREE MEASURES OF MEAL, TILL THE WHOLE WAS LEAVENED. In the effort to bring the great truths of the kingdom of God home to His hearers, to teach them i...
REPENT OR PERISH (vs.1-9) This chapter shows that righteousness by itself provides no hope for man, but presses upon us the solemn lesson of repentance. Thus it prepares the way for Chapter s 14 and...
MEASURES: See Matthew 13:33...
18-22 Here is the progress of the gospel foretold in two parables, as in Luke 13:13. The kingdom of the Messiah is the kingdom of God. May grace grow in our hearts; may our faith and love grow exceed...
SEE POOLE ON "LUKE 13:20...
Luke 13:21 is G2076 (G5748) like G3664 leaven G2219 which G3739 woman G1135 took G2983 (G5631) hid...
“It is like to leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, until it was all leavened.” But He has another purpose in the second illustration and that is to introduce women into the e...
THE KINGLY RULE OF GOD WILL GROW FROM SMALL BEGINNINGS JUST AS A MUSTARD SEED BECOMES A GREAT BUSH AND A LITTLE LEAVEN LEAVENS THE WHOLE LUMP (13:18-21). Having revealed how Jesus can loose men from S...
Luke 13:18-21. PARABLES OF THE MUSTARD SEED AND THE LEAVEN. See notes on Matthew 13:31-33. On the repetition of these parables, see note at the beginning of the section. There is an appropriate connec...
TIME. It is generally agreed that this incident belongs to the later period of our Lord's ministry, about the time of His visit to Perea (Matthew 19:1-2; Mark 10:1). The reasons for this are (1.) that...
THIS division of the Gospel of Luke, embracing nearly one third of the whole, contains for the most part matter peculiar to this Evangelist. A number of the incidents probably belong to an earlier per...
Luke 13:6. _He spake also this parable; A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came and sought fruit thereon, and found none._ It was a fig tree, a fruit-bearing tree by profess...
Luke 13:18. _Then said he, Unto what is the kingdom of God like? and whereunto shall I resemble it?_ For men learn much by resemblances, and the things which are seen are frequently helpful to us in...
Luke 13:11. _And, behold, there was a woman which had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bowed together, and could in no wise lift up herself. And when Jesus saw her, he called her to him,...
Luke 13:10. _And he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath, And, behold, there was a woman which had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bowed together, and could in no wise li...
CONTENTS: Parable of barren fig tree. Woman loosed from her infirmity. Parable of mustard seed and leaven. Jesus teaching on way to Jerusalem. CHARACTERS: Jesus, Galileans, Pilate, infirm woman, rule...
Luke 13:1. _There were some present at that season_ of the passover, _that told him of the Galileans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their_ _sacrifices._ Though this might be blood for blood, yet...
WHAT SHALL I COMPARE IT WITH? For notes on the parables of the Mustard Seed and the Yeast, see Matthew 13:31-33....
_It Is like leaven_ THE HIDDEN LEAVEN The kingdom of heaven, or the work of God in the soul, is like leaven. 1. It at once occurs to us that leaven is something foreign to and different from the mea...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 13:21 A tiny amount of yeast can spread throughout the dough to produce a large amount of bread (see note on 1 Cor. 5:6–7). THREE MEASURES would have produced enough bread to feed a...
THE PARABLE OF YEAST AND LEAVEN MATTHEW 13:33; LUKE 13:20-21; LUKE 13:20 And again he said, Whereunto shall I liken the kingdom of God? Matthew 1
CHAPTER 13 VER. 1. _Whose blood Pilate mingled._ That is, whom while they were sacrificing in Mount Gerizim in Samaria, Pilate slew. He slew them that their blood might be mingled with the blood of th...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 13:19. LIKE A GRAIN OF MUSTARD SEED.—So small in size as to be a proverbial comparison among the Jews for anything exceedingly small. GARDEN.— Matthew 13:31 has “field.” A GREAT...
EXPOSITION LUKE 13:1 _Signs of the times. The Lord continues his solemn warnings. Israel pictured in the parable of the barren fig tree._ LUKE 13:1 There were present at that season some that told...
Now there were present at that season (Luke 13:1) And, of course, now Luke may have gone on in a period of time. We don't know how much time elapsed between verse Luke 13:59 of chapter 12, and Luke 13...
1 Corinthians 5:6; 1 Thessalonians 5:23; 1 Thessalonians 5:24; Hosea 6:3;...
Leaven. See on Matthew 12:33....
Covered up — So that, for a time, nothing of it appeared....